Jens Lekman Quotes

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.